House of Eratosthenes

1) At this point, the city of Detroit owes money to more than 100,000 creditors.

2) Detroit is facing $20 billion in debt and unfunded liabilities. That breaks down to more than $25,000 per resident.

3) Back in 1960, the city of Detroit actually had the highest per-capita income in the entire nation.
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9) An astounding 47 percent of the residents of the city of Detroit are functionally illiterate.

10) Less than half of the residents of Detroit over the age of 16 are working at this point.

11) If you can believe it, 60 percent of all children in the city of Detroit are living in poverty.
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20) When you call the police in Detroit, it takes them an average of 58 minutes to respond.

21) Due to budget cutbacks, most police stations in Detroit are now closed to the public for 16 hours a day.

22) The violent crime rate in Detroit is five times higher than the national average.
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25) Crime has gotten so bad in Detroit that even the police are telling people to “enter Detroit at your own risk“.

The democrats is the edyoomakayshun party. Don’t forget.

Hat tip to Instapundit.

Update 7/22/13: Is your city next? Via Gerard.

A few uber leftists are saying that Detroit is the result of Republican governance and malfeasance. Seriously. Normally I’d chalk it up to stupidity, but I’m opting for malice in this instance. All of the media will bleat out this bullshit and it will become another accepted Big Lie.

I know what you’re thinking: there aren’t enough stupid people in this country for that to work. As a counter-example to that argument, I would like to point out the results of the last presidential election.
- Physics Geek | 07/22/2013 @ 05:41
First thought in my head is: Who? Can they name names? Some Michigan Governor, maybe?
- mkfreeberg | 07/22/2013 @ 05:55
Which is proof — if any more were needed — that politics is nothing but tribalism. You pick your party like you pick your favorite baseball team. Dad’s a Yankees fan, so you’re a Yankees fan… unless you don’t get along with Dad, and become a die-hard Mets fan instead.

I can count on one hand the number of times a liberal had specifics to hand when pressed on one of these questions. You do realize that Detroit hasn’t elected a Republican to anything since the early 1960s, right? That Michigan as a whole has been bluer than blue for quite a while, thanks largely to unions and…ummm….diversity in the capital? Sheesh. But they all know that Mitt Romney’s dad was governor of Michigan for a while, so therefore it’s all the GOP’s fault. Wonderful how these little beachhead facts open a path for huge swathes of stupidity.
- Severian | 07/22/2013 @ 06:24
Well, this is one of the reasons we lose elections. What a great line for an intelligent vote-getter to use! Democrats are powerless against Republicans, by their own admission. Republicans can turn a bankrupt state around in months, while Democrats are helpless against Republicans decades after the fact, according to Democrats. Whee! Make them eat those lies anything they propose anything. “Raise the Minimum Wage!” “Sorry, it won’t work, it’s too soon. Wait until Republicans have been out of power for a century, and it might work. As it is, Detroit, right? Not your fault, but we can’t take the chance it will happen again, and we both agree that Detroit happened because Democrats tried to do things too soon after Republicans were in office. Our hands are tied….”.
- Robert Mitchell Jr. | 07/22/2013 @ 07:51
First thought in my head is: Who? Can they name names? Some Michigan Governor, maybe?

You’re going about this all wrong. You’re attempting to use facts and logic in your argument. Feelings, ignorance, brain damage: these are the things the leftist craves.
- Physics Geek | 07/22/2013 @ 13:31
Charles Krauthammer takes apart the argument. Again, do not assume that reality will be allowed to intrude into the dementia of modern leftism..
- Physics Geek | 07/23/2013 @ 06:06
This Sunday, while what’s left of the city slept, a giant arm, straight, with ungloved fist reminicent of “Black Power” seen beginning with “diverse” Democrat Party style “management” of the city, was erected, at the corner of Woodward and Jefferson, in Detroit.
It’s…um… “in honor of Joe Louis”.

I suppose it can be sold off as scrap, along with it’s support structure. Apparently the
Joe Lewis honorarium can’t stand on it’s own. The public display CERTAINLY doesn’t
fit in with the grand experiment of “zero-tolerance” for VIOLENCE promoted in Detroit’s public schools.

It may also serve as a monument to Crony Socialism, preparing the remaining residents to “Bend over, here it comes!” cuz’ it’s time to pay the piper, and the old Socialism-via-Fascism, and “Activism”, “community organizers” ain’t bringing their new-found gub’mint WPA political staff back to town anytime soon.

Can anyone actually call Obama on their “Obama phone”?
Aren’t those GM “flex” fuel freight, delivery, taxis, busses, fire, maintenance, garbage, abmbulance and police vehicals that AREN’T running on Detroit’s streets?
- CaptDMO | 07/23/2013 @ 07:29
crap…
“…ain’t bringing their new-found gub’mint WPA political staff back to town anytime soon, and all the left over “new” Obama Treasury Money (how much is just one trillion?) is being spent on foreign “interests” by the forklift pallet load.

Bet all those narco-dollars that somehow ended up in central/south America would have been enough to rename a “New/Free Detroit” Obamatropolis. Time was when all the community fathers would keep the drug dealers out. Apparently, the “job” of many “daddies” changed , since Dems PROMISED “change”.
As it is, I think Uniontown is an apt sobriquet, but there’s already a BUNCH of those now-inconsequential bergs with that name.
- CaptDMO | 07/23/2013 @ 07:47

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